Quick question on Handicap Certificate

[Martin70]

Sorry to ask what a lot of you will know but Google hasn't solved this for me this morning.

I have joined a new club and my old club kindly gave me my handicap certificate to take along - alongside my handicap is the letter 'c'.

I am guessing (and hoping) this means a valid handicap for comps but wanted to ask if this is definitely what it means so I can plan my first comp soon.

Many thanks for your help.

 

[bluewolf]

It means it's a "competition" handicap.. i.e, in old money, it's active.. You're good to go..:thup:

 

[Martin70]

Thanks Bluewolf - was hoping that was the case :whoo:

 

[Bratty]

It used to be the case that people with inactive handicaps were flagged "i".

It's now been changed so all active handicaps are flagged "c" and the inactive ones have no label any more.

 

[matt71]

on this point (sorry for butting in) what does "Away" mean next to your name/Handicap after playing a comp. I refer to the How do i do website ?

Never seen it before and was a bit confused, which is not hard .

 

[chrisd]

on this point (sorry for butting in) what does "Away" mean next to your name/Handicap after playing a comp. I refer to the How do i do website ?

Never seen it before and was a bit confused, which is not hard .

It's for members of more than one golf club and as you can only hold your handicap at one club the "away" denotes his/ her handicap is kept at another club. All qualifying comps should channel through to the holding club for handicap changes whichever course they play at though

 

[matt71]

It's for members of more than one golf club and as you can only hold your handicap at one club the "away" denotes his/ her handicap is kept at another club. All qualifying comps should channel through to the holding club for handicap changes whichever course they play at though

Cheers Chrisd That makes sense, thank you for teh quick reply